Sunday, May 28, 2006

QW - Mother War

"War is the mother of everything."

-Heraclitus, Greek Philosopher 500 BC

Sunday, May 21, 2006

QW - Dirty Fighting

"Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for. "

– Unknown

Sunday, May 14, 2006

QW - The Mob Rule

"An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow”

- Major-General J.F.C Fuller, " Training soldiers for war" 1914

Sunday, May 07, 2006

QW - Government Motivation of the Soldier

"In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others”

(Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam's national police chief, was doing all he could to keep Viet Cong guerrillas from Saigon. As Loan executed a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain, 1968)
- Ben Franklin